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        <p>If you're a grammar-phobe, don't worry. I'm right there with
        you. In fact, until I began to study Japanese, I saw no use for grammar whatsoever.
        I couldn't tell you what a subject or an object was, let alone the harder items
        like articles and participles. So don't fret. I'm not going to turn into your eighth
        grade English teacher and have you graph sentences. </p>

        <p>Actually, the name of this software, Human Japanese, is
        meant to describe my approach to this whole concept of learning a language. In
        my experience, there seem to be two main approaches to language. The first is
        the memorization camp. These people pick up a phrase book and just memorize all
        the key sentences. You probably know someone from the office who can ask for a
        beer in 50 different languages. That's great, but what happens when you want to
        ask what <i>kinds </i>of beer are available, or <i>where </i>the beer was made,
        or <i>how you can send a beer</i> to that attractive person across the room?
        With the phrase approach, if you don't know the phrase, you're out of luck.</p>

        <p>The other camp is the grammar-centric camp. These people
        say, look, if you don't know the grammar, you're stuck with whatever tiny
        number of sentences you can memorize. If you understand how to string the words
        together, you can make any sentence you want. And they're absolutely right. The
        trouble is that a lot of the books that take this approach get so bogged down
        in the endless details that the poor student, coming in as a healthy,
        fun-loving individual, gets turned off by the clinical sterility and gives up.</p>

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